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RDCanecutter

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  1. Bayeux Bayeux
  2. I can think of few fates grimmer than being the seventh generation chained to a farm.
  3. I hope so. CSB: maybe 12 years ago when I was selling $5 cartoons on eBay, an artsy gallery on Brick Lane in London bought batches of them to resell. They took me about 5 minutes each to make. I hope they marked them up 10 times and sold them at nose-bleed prices to vacationing aristocracy who'd never handle knowing they originated from my dirty filthy Alabamian hands. Good times. /CSB
  4. Well which is it, young feller, is she Welsh, or Texan? Because if the's Welsh, she'd be standin in Cardiff. And if she's Texan, she's not gonna be in motion if she was already here.
  5. Probably wattle and daub cleverly constructed to mimic metal and concrete. Typical cargo cult stuff.
  6. Stevie Ray is honored with a second statue in Wales I see.
  7. And also in Army Basic Training. There's a joke in there somewhere.
  8. All I know is never get in the way of a guy driving a dented car.
  9. Man. Like those military notes, I wonder if the slightly uneven eyes were a counterfeit-beating measure. Were those used to avoid having to ship heavy coins abroad? Those Chihuahua notes from the start of the RevoluciΓ³n, I kind of wonder if they ever got cashed in for full value. But I read that Villa, starting out, was paying his men in gold pesos. Only later did he print so much paper money that it dropped in value iirc. Texas money-- any idea what was on the triangular cut-out? Confederate-- as a child I remember my grandmother taking three CSA $20 bills out of hiding to show to me. At the time I thought a great-great-grandaddy Canecutter had ridden the dusty trail home with them stashed in a saddle bag. Now I realize maybe my own grandad bought them a century later in the little tobacco/paperback/porn magazine kiosk that once stood on Broad Street in downtown Selma. Don't know if they're still stashed in her old house. They looked nice, so maybe they were Union counterfeits. I once read that on the eve of Lee's surrender, the CSA Dollar was running about 70 to 1 to the US Dollar (the real one, not the Greenback.) So, at the low point of the Confederacy, you could theoretically use 1400 doomed bumwad dollars to get an ounce of gold. I doubt it ever happened, but I am sure that eggs or other perishables changed hands in the currency up until the end, and maybe after-- say it's 1865, and you read that clause about how they could be cashed in "6 months after a ratification of a treaty of peace," well, it doesn't say anything about winning, who knows if the Yankees might honor it for some number of cents on the dollar? Makes as much sense as holding onto some NFT.
  10. I blame high schools that didn't have drama programs.
  11. I'm glad I got my churchin' in before the projected lyrics and the wavey-hands praying started up.
  12. That's gonna be the Commission from Hell for whichever artist gets railroaded into it. The head will never be right.
  13. That price right there is why they're a moronic company. I suspect all the best logos in history were produced by throwing a week's pay at a couple of in-house graphic designers, and the CEO and a couple other guys looked at them, couldn't decide, and had the secretary pick one out. As for football, if you OD missing it, just go sit in a bar. They're paying for it whether you're there or not.
  14. Always been more of an Ionesco feller my own self.
  15. It's the kind of shit I used to hear from my grandparents' generation. And happily not from my actual grandparents, just random mean old fuckers.
  16. I'd say stamp collecting and pure coin collecting (focused more on the type and condition than the material) are similar head-spaces. When I was a kid I inherited a bag of British Empire stamps and perusing them gave me exposure to art, geography, and some grasp of world events post-WWII. Then there were countless almost-worthless world coins in base metal that I would buy out of gum ball machines. An aluminum coin with something like "1000 pesos" written on it is worth a Masters in Economics if you stare at it long enough. Back to stamps, an old coin dealer who'd confide the tricks of the trade mentioned that he was slightly annoyed at "Bullion Sharks" (like me) but the real PITA was mailing things to stamp collectors-- they considered themselves some sort of aristocracy, and would crawl all over a stamp with a magnifying glass searching for one fly speck to complain about.
  17. George Wallace absently waves a singed and faded Presidential campaign flag, wondering why he couldn't have been born 27 years later.
  18. That's what I'm saying-- Mexican gold was common, not much mark-up. Libertads weren't any more expensive than Maples or Eagles. Now they are, dunno why. /OldManStories
  19. Well, the Democrats currently compare poorly to French Generals in 1940, so you aren't really an outlier around here if you feel contempt for them.
  20. ^^^One of the side-effects of Inlyta.
  21. The writing would require him to lean out in some semi-physically-fit sort of way. He had an intern do it, one that he'd already caught doing something creepy so he knows the kid won't rat.
  22. Good spirit, high morale. Now if they'll just guard the Ardennes better this time.
  23. I have smashed up my right shoulder so many times (including, ironically, being on the "winning" side of a fight scene in a no-budget movie) that I must pass up all roles that involve: --sword fights [incl. spears, knives, and similar] --stick shifts --crucifixions I am open for harem scenes or anything else where I can lie on a bed, if he wants to branch out.
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